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Republic Services

Waste management and recycling services provider

Logistics Analyst

Logistics & TransportationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWest Columbia, SC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Be able to work in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.
  • Be skillful with Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
  • Be able to understand and execute time-sensitive tasks.
  • Have experience in a customer-facing position.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and oversee drivers, trucks, and containers to create capacity, maximize productivity, and ensure prompt, courteous, and efficient customer service.
  • Oversee safety, customer experience, and productivity.
  • Ensure compliance with required safety policies and procedures.
  • Analyze daily route information and implement routing changes to improve standardization, efficiency, and accuracy using the internal routing platform.
  • Use routing-system visibility and flexibility to analyze and respond to same-day changes or next-day planning needs, improve on-route efficiencies, and identify route-design patterns and improvement areas.
  • Ensure routes are closed on time by verifying data accuracy and making the close-route process durable.
  • Quickly and proactively evaluate and resolve problems that arise while trucks and drivers are in transit.
  • Proactively manage driver safety and the security of company assets, and provide direction to drivers.
  • Collect, interpret, and analyze logistics data, including inventory, asset reliability, and route data, to make decisions that increase routing accuracy.
  • Communicate constantly with drivers to evaluate route progress and ensure they have necessary information.
  • Evaluate and escalate driver performance issues or concerns for resolution.
  • Understand route sequencing to drive efficiency.
  • Respond to missed pickups and service commitments by scheduling customers accordingly.
  • Evaluate and educate drivers regarding missed pickups, and develop strategies to avoid future missed-pickup failures.
  • Create routes with maximized capacity and review loads-per-driver-per-day goals to maximize profitability.
  • Monitor daily routing activities and resolve issues to ensure on-time pickup and delivery; assess the need for swing routes and verify that swing opportunities are identified.
  • Analyze trends in swing percentage to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Monitor and adjust current-day and next-day plans throughout the day as circumstances change.
  • Understand daily disposal plans and help identify optimal disposal sites for each load, holding drivers accountable for using assigned disposal sites.
  • Discuss disposal plans and recommendations with the Operations Manager and update them when intercompany or third-party changes occur.
  • Determine whether service requests can be pulled forward to drive efficiency while providing a strong customer experience.
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
  • Courteously interact with customers as required.
  • Design routes to reduce customer service issues and comply with hours-of-service and weight requirements, while enabling drivers to work safely, successfully, and efficiently.
  • Analyze and prioritize customer commitments to ensure customers are serviced and promises are kept.
  • Update call-center communication daily and continually assess and communicate to reduce missed pickups and improve communication between the division and customers.
  • Evaluate route issues that may cause delays and use available tools to communicate with impacted customers.
  • Continually review routing media and process service exceptions, general messages, and extra-service information to meet customer needs.
  • Adhere to and execute universal service commitments to support customer satisfaction.

Desired Qualifications

  • Two years of prior experience working in a Dispatcher or similar leadership role is preferred.

About the Company

Republic Services

Waste management and recycling services provider

Republic Services provides environmental services focused on waste and recycling, including solid, special, and hazardous waste management, advanced recycling, field and industrial services, 24/7 emergency response, equipment rental, and cleaning. It leverages a nationwide network of recycling centers and a large workforce to collect, process, recycle, treat, and dispose of waste under a single-source solution, and it captures landfill gas to generate renewable energy. Unlike fragmented providers, it offers a broad, integrated suite of services through one partner and pursues sustainability initiatives like circular economy programs. Its goal is to help customers meet environmental goals and improve environmental and economic sustainability by reducing waste, boosting recycling, and generating renewable energy.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Phoenix, AZ
Founded
1998

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